Improved wash-boaed



@with taire @anni @frn HOOPER B. STRAUT, 0F GREENLEAF, MINNESOTA.

Letters Patent No.' 82,175, dated September 15, 1868.

IMPROVED WASH-BOARD.

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TO ALIA WHOM IT MAY GIOINCERN:

Be it known that I, HOOPER B. STRAUT, of Greenleaf, in the county of Meeker, and State of Minnesota, have invented anew end useful Improvement in Washing-Boards; and I declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference b'eing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a. part of this specification.

A is ain'ordinary 'groovedrwashingboai-d, having two slotted metallic ear-pieces, a' a, set upon the opposite sides, in the position indicated.

C is a frameLat'tached to A by loosely-fitting screws passed through the slots in a a.

Into frame C is set the rubbing-board D, the under side of which is finished with obliquely-running grooves, and the ends of which are tenoned to play in corresponding grooves in the opposite sides ofvtheframe. A stout handle also is fixed upon'the upper side of D, by which the rubbing of clothes is accomplisheilthus securing the benefits of an elaborate machine by o cheap addition to the ordinary board.

I claim, in combination, the construction of the rubbing-board D within frcme` C, and the mode of attaching the same-thus constructed to al common Washing-board, substantially as and for the purposes described.

' HOOPER B. STRAUT.

Witnesses;

ALBERT SMITH, GEORGE R. ROBINSON. 

